May 16, 2012 /
Untold Stories
Kathryn Joyce
Short waiting periods and high availability of young children have made Ethiopia an international adoption hot spot. Babies have become a major "export" but corruption is rampant.
May 15, 2012 /
Monsicha 'Sam' Hoonsuwan
Ameto Akpe's presentation on water management in Nigeria is highlighted on the New Security Beat, a blog hosted by the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program.
May 14, 2012 /
Newsweek
Trevor Snapp
A refugee camp in South Sudan overflows with orphans fleeing bombs and starvation.
May 7, 2012 /
Austin Merrill, Peter DiCampo
In Ivory Coast—the world’s top cocoa producer—cocoa farmers bore the brunt of a civil war that killed thousands and displaced more than a million. A year after a power transfer, has anything changed?
May 4, 2012 /
Tom Hundley
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on the military coup in Mali's capital, Bamako and the feature on the families of China's migrant factory workers.
May 2, 2012 /
Jennifer McDonald, Jen Marlowe
Materials for teachers and students ahead of filmmaker Jen Marlowe's visit.
April 30, 2012 /
The Sacramento Bee
Micah Albert
At the Dandora trash dump in Nairobi, Kenya, the scene is otherworldly: smoke from burning chemicals and plastic, rotting debris, overpowering smells, scavenging animals and humans.
April 27, 2012 /
The New York Times
Eliza Griswold, Seamus Murphy
Afghan women are writing poetry of love, war, exile, grief and Afghan independence with ferocity. By writing it they are also risking their lives.
April 27, 2012 /
Tom Hundley
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on water and sanitation in Liberia and Kenya's mountainous dump site called Dandora, as well as our 2012 student fellows.
April 27, 2012 /
Eliza Griswold, Seamus Murphy
Anonymous and spoken, landai, two-line Pashtun poems, have served for centuries as a means of self-expression for women. Today they are an important vehicle of public dissent.